Eric Herschthal

Eric Herschthal is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He is writing a book about the antislavery movement. (June 2018)

Trump’s Jack Johnson Pardon

When Trump pardoned Jack Johnson, the president seemed to be buying into the very strategy Johnson long felt would exonerate him: that his celebrity would help white Americans see him not as a black man, but as Jack Johnson, a champion who transcended race.

June 13, 2018

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